The Unconquerable Power of Free Will

[Michael:D]

In Recorded Live: Episode 21 - The One Where We Just Decided To Discuss Free Will the discussion of free will brought to mind the typical arrogance of many to thank God for some things while taking credit themselves for other aspects of their lives. With such a mindset is it any wonder "Invictus" is often sited among the American people's best loved poems? Read the following and ask yourself if this is how you truly feel... How does this notion fit-in with Biblical Truths?




Invictus (unconquered)

Out of the night which covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeoning of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds, and shall find me, unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul

- - - William Ernest Henley (1849?1903)